Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-14
FROM WARRINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Aleza. GAZETTE.
WASHINGTON. D. @. April a, 1887.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April IA, 1887.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr.. ". W. Scott. secretary of the executive
commit, of the democratic party of Vir-
pinia. Mr.. Scott says he has talked with
several members Of the legislature of his
State since The recess OF that body, and that
all of them entertain and express the
hope that the proposed conference for the
settlement OF the Virginia debt will be sue
cessful. He, himself, is not so hopeful of
settlement now as he was before the APP
pointment of Sir Edward Thornton as the
conferee on the part Of the creditors was
announced.
Mr.. Dormer B. Eaton, ex. chief of the
civil service commission, delivered g free
lecture here last night on the beneficial Of,
fects of the civil service ss now conducted.
Notwithstanding the fact that the lecture
had been extensively advertised, the all
dience was very small, and was composed
chiefly of short haired women dressed in
black Mr.. Eaton is an ayowed republican,
and until recently was 4 rabid one, but he
said last night that Mr.. Cleveland suited
him very we'll for President, and that II
Cleveland and Blaine be the rival candl-
dates for the next Presidency it would take
him some time to determine for which one
to cast his vote.
Col. Ordway, who, according to the news
papers of this city, has az good as been com"
missioned as general Of volunteer militia
of the District of Columbia, says all no
knows about that matter is what he has
seen in the newspapers, that no body that
has anything to do with appointing COM
mander of the District militia has told him
he will be appointed, and that the publica-
ton referred to puts him in an awkward
position. He says he has heard there ls
some objection among the Alexandria Light
Infantry to take part IN the national drill
to be held here, but that there need not be,
IS they will be put where they can't even
smell the colored soldiers.
The sub. committee OF the Senate finance
committee, now considering the subject OF
uuder-vauation of imports, will recon-
mend as a corrective of that evil the appoint.
ment of commission OF expert inspectors.
1t seems that to the mind of an average
congressman highly paid commission is
panacea for all the evils that atHict this
country, and that, too, though experience
proves that of all humbugs such commits
slons are the greatest.
Gen. Malone, though expected here, is
still in Petersburg. 1t is said that he Is
managing even the county conTentions OF
his party, and that he says there is no ap-
peal from the action OF such convention
except to another one.
Inquiries are being made in naval circles
regarding the whereabouts of Charles A
Gibson, pay clerk of the OsairrcOe, ana clerk to
Paymaster Pseen. Mr.. Gibson disappeared
+, from Norfolk, Va, on March 2Stb, aud was
reported to have been seen in Philadelphia
on the next day, since which time nothing
( has been heard from him. His accounts
were found to be all right. The missing
man leaves wife and children in this city,
and the presumption is growing that he has
gone to England.
Arrangements are now fully completed
for the flying visit of the Madison Square
| Company to this city, where it is to perform
"Jim, the Penman" on Monday evening
| April 18th, at the National Theatre, at the
request of the President, the members of his
Cabinet and other prominent personages.
MIR. Ridley, superintendent of the Wash
| ington Steamboat Company. says it is not
certain yet whether the steamer Wakefield
Fer the ArroWsmith will run as au excursion
boat TO Colonial Beach during the coming
season, but that whichever Que shall, the
other one will continue on the regular river
line now run by his company.
The administration has now apparently
joined the prohibition crusade, for the last
publication from the Office of the bureau OF
statistics, is a patent temperance document
and speaks of the evil effects of 'King Alec.
hol" in the most approved style of the old
total abstinence lecturers.
The work of filling up the bed OF the old
Alexandria canal for roadway to the free
bridge to be built on the site of the canal
aqueduct at Georgetown, will be commenced
tomorrow.
It is reported On the streets here to day
| that the recent Interview with Mr. George
William Curtis, the chief Of the mugwumps,
having been permitted, by slip, to reach
| the President, he has at last conceived the
| idea that implicit reliance cannot be placed
at least upon all tho ilatterers tell him, and
that the awakening is by no means agree
able to him. What Mr.. Curtis said was
Il am afraid the forces which now antago-
nize him in his party lines would be power
full enough to defeat hia election. We
might as well make up our minds that the
next election for the president will be sell
tied within twenty miles around the city #
New York In New York City the demo.
cratic leaders are opposed to him, and these
would coyertly work against him at the
polls In the convention, if he be nom.
mated, there may be an apparent harmony.
1t will, however, not be honest. He will
be antagonized by his party leaders in New
York, and for this reason fear he will be
defeated if nominated. He is too good for
the party. To elect president, anyway the
next one, the successful party must carry
New York. The democratic leaders in
New York, including Tammany Hall, are
opposed to Cleveland, and l feel the con
seriousness that they would slaughter him at
the polls"
General Ewing, now of New York, formerly
democratic member Of Congress from Ohio, is in
the city to-day. The General is not believer in
the Cleveland boom, and not hopeful of success
next year if Cleveland beat the head of the ticket.
Mr.. Fryer, engineer in chief of the iron steam
ship Pocahontas to be built at Alexandria, in the
city to-day. He says every thing is progressing
favoraby with his proposed undertaking, and
that he is now looking around for his iron con-
tracts Mr.. Fryer was accompanied by Mr.. John
s. Cary, of Denver, Colorado, who has lately con-
nected himself investor with the Arrow
Steamship Company.
NJ.